Now that the left, with help from a complicit (and revoltingly romantic) media, have ginned up interest in the “Occupy Movement,” the next stage of perception is being forged — this time, with the help of professional organizers, to be followed by the various factions of the leftist movement, from NGOs to labor to the cynical, opportunistic politicians that hope to lend this attack on the capitalist system the legitimacy of a real grass roots uprising (knowing as they do that it is government that stands to gain most from such an anti-capital, anti-free market movement).
Which is why it’s important to know the players.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the mainstream press has thrown in with what now is but a collection of aimless malcontents or fringe revolutionary Marxists, protecting them with blinkered coverage and by themselves claiming the responsible of putting into words the mission statement of a group of disparate protesters that, it is clear, has none.
These events shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with Alinsky or Cloward-Piven — and yet the smart set, even those putatively aligned with the right, has spent so much time marginalizing those who pointed out how the revolutionary playbook was being followed, that they seem dead set on refusing to acknowledge, even at this moment, the orchestrated attempt at a soft-coup that is taking place right before their eyes.
Perhaps when the first “bankers” or “Wall Street-types” are arrested or beaten, the people who’ve spent years now insisting Obama is merely another liberal Democrat, and that fears of his radical ties to the likes of Black Liberation theology or the brains behind the Weathermen were the overblown, paranoid fantasies of racist fringe wingnuts from whom the more cultured Republicans need distance themselves, will stop relying on their adeptness at ironizing the world and turn their attentions to the evidence that is piling up before them.
These are not your parents’ Democrats. Thankfully, what we have going for us is the singular irony that the outsized social influence these types have thanks to their relationship with the activist progressive media, has probably convinced them that they are more powerful than they actually are.
And that will be their downfall.
This is the “spontaneous” movement that just happened to secure it’s website 3 weeks prior to it’s organic humble beginnings, right?
Click, click, boom.
Yep, JD. Unlike those Koch-sucking teabaggers!
The people who think the OWS crowd are doing good things are either the kind of people who want this country “fundamentally changed” or they are not paying attention to what the OWS participants are actually saying.
Many of the OWS types appear to be complaining that they got loans to go to college, studied a major based on their personal fulfillment rather than eventual employability, and are now finding that they cannot get work because they have no skills anyone will pay for. They want their bad choices to have no consequences.
It’s a collective temper-tantrum.
The media build-up of these spoiled children annoys me the most. The MBM is trying to sell OWS as the “real” response of the people, in comparison with the Tea Party Terrorists, which was astroturfing funded by the Koch brothers. This is an inversion of the truth, but selling a narrative is more important to the MBM than reporting the facts.
The OWS crowd may fracture or self-immolate in the end, but the MBM will keep it together as much as they can for as long as they can, because it’s the story the MBM wants to tell.
These are not your parents’ Democrats.
Indeed. Out parents’ Democrats would have been out there weeks ago with German Shepherds and fire hoses.
Many of the OWS types appear to be complaining that they got loans to go to college, studied a major based on their personal fulfillment rather than eventual employability, and are now finding that they cannot get work because they have no skills anyone will pay for.
And you can bet your ass that the media handlers are working overtime to identify a handful of these guys who actually studied and got ‘real’ degrees, so as to give a respectable face to the rabble. Further, they’ll push the narrative that the reason these ‘good kids’ can’t get work is because of Wall Street’s greed, and never Main Street’s fear of Washington’s capricious malice.
I share in Jeff’s frustration that manipulation this obvious should be going un-noticed by so many.
Just as the left has no issue counting envy and a pursuant rage among its virtue, no doubt.
In a just world covetousness, theft, and unbridled anger are considered morally wrong because of their harms. In an unjust world they’re left to impair the greater whole. In a mad world they’re not even identified for what they are.
In a truly insane community covetousness, theft, and unbridled anger are the literal, willful product of its institutions of learning and organs or official truth, up to and including its governing class.
The radical left — which is an increasing ratio of the “progressive” mentality — is in the fourth generation removed from justice and sanity.
Some puppets.
The first thing I checked this morning was to see how Bloomberg would give the Occupiers their needed victory. What, clear the park to hose down the feces and not let them back in with tents and sleeping bags? Nah, avert confrontation, postpone closing the park.
the occupuppets are piteous dumbfucks is what I learned in chicago this week
you can look in their eyes and see it
but the ones I met were harmless cudlips mostly
bless their hearts
“I have no issue with property destruction.”
A sentiment widely shared among people with no property. It’s a lot like people who pay no taxes supporting higher taxes.
Butterflies in jack boots.
Kinda sorta like how, during W’s administration, the Lickspittle Media(TM) played up Code Pink and their ilk as being a massive movement representative of the sentiments of most Americans, facts be damned. And remarkably, now that O occupies the office, Code Pink is still there, but you’re not going to hear about it from the Lickspittle Media(TM).
They know but one tune, and like a child who just learned how to bang out the rhythmic “bumbadada-bumbadada-bumbadada-bumbadada-bumbadada” riff of “Heart and Soul,” they keep playing it over and over and over and . . .
Funny how that works. Not funny in a ha-ha way, either.
they seem dead set on refusing to acknowledge, even at this moment, the orchestrated attempt at a soft-coup that is taking place right before their eyes.
It’s prolly similar to many Americans’ reluctance to take Imperial Islam seriously: if we recognize them as genuinely dangerous, then we have to rouse ourselves and do all kinds of unpleasant and inconvenient things to combat them.
We may admire The Greatest Generation for their sacrifices in WWII, but better them than us, right?
In a just world covetousness, theft, and unbridled anger are considered morally wrong because of their harms. In an unjust world they’re left to impair the greater whole. In a mad world they’re not even identified for what they are.
Someday I’ll be fat enough to tattoo that on my arm.
In one line.
the Lickspittle Media™ played up Code Pink and their ilk as being a massive movement representative of the sentiments of most Americans
Cindy Sheehan, as a Gold-Star Mother, had Absolute Moral Authority, but the other Gold-Star Mothers who supported the war and who far outnumbered her, did not exist.
Too bad Katrina upstaged their pilgrimage to Crawford.
Lisa Fithian’s group RANT (Root Activist Network of Trainers).
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